Okay so according to the people watching the livestream, Torchwick and Penny are both confirmed dead and won't be coming back
I'm still not too sure on the latter being a permanent thing because well.... Penny is still a gynoid. A hyper-advanced one, but still repairable. I could see her being gone for a volume until the season finale having a She's Back though.
edited 12th Feb '16 5:29:29 PM by BlackSunNocturne
Still a bit salty at how anti-climatic and Deus ex Machina-y Roman's death was.
@Black Sun Nocturne: I saw the livestream and I'm not so confident in claiming that. The crew were very clear that they would not be discussing spoilers, and a couple of them (notably Barbara and Shannon) both had anecdotes where they'd been discussing the show with fans and went along with whatever the fans were speculating about the characters because they didn't want to (and can't) spoil anything.
If that's the attitude, then the crew are really only taking the stance of what's been revealed in the episodes to date. For instance someone (Barbara, I think) said "Can I talk about Adam's Semblance?" and the very blunt response was "No", so the subject was immediately dropped.
They appear to be dead in the episodes, and that's how the crew spoke of them. In Roman's case, I definitely do understand why people might conclude that he's definitely dead and not coming back because they were joking about his voice actor having a terrible year for his characters being killed off, but given that they are also so spoiler-conscious and kept talking in terms of only what's been revealed so far to fans, I'm not sure we can draw any safe conclusions about it.
edited 12th Feb '16 5:40:26 PM by Wyldchyld
If my post doesn't mention a giant flying sperm whale with oversized teeth and lionfish fins for flippers, it just isn't worth reading.![]()
Well, they didn't say he was 100% dead and never coming back. They did joke about him being eaten, but then they would, because that's precisely what the episode showed us.
Yes, they did talk about him having a good run given that his role ended up far exceeding the original intent, and that's the comment that I can see people latching onto when interpreting it as him definitely not coming back (and it definitely can be interpreted that way).
I'm just pointing out that it's definitely going to be about how fans interpret the livestream comments because they didn't 100% confirm it, given their conscientiousness about spoiling absolutely anything that hasn't yet appeared in an episode.
edited 12th Feb '16 5:47:07 PM by Wyldchyld
If my post doesn't mention a giant flying sperm whale with oversized teeth and lionfish fins for flippers, it just isn't worth reading.As for Penny...well it may feel a bit like cheating, but what if she stays dead but another Penny is built or something?
And I'm perfectly fine with Torchwick being dead. He was little more than a top class mook in the grand scheme of things, anyways.
edited 12th Feb '16 5:43:58 PM by AdricDePsycho
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?So, bottom line, the RWBY writers are Trolling Creators. Just like Masahiro Sakurai.
AAAAUUUUGGGHHHH!!!!![]()
Unless it's a deliberate Lying Creator (well, actually Jedi Truth) moment, I'm gonna say no. But from what others on the thread who bothered to watch the stream are saying, they never talked about characters coming back.
edited 12th Feb '16 5:46:38 PM by CaptainCapsase
They really need an explanation for why that's the case (probably aura) if they're going to do that. Which we'll presumably get when we meet Penny's creator. That said, at this point, I'm not sure they even said she wasn't coming back, nor did they specifically point out that she's dead, just mentioned it in passing.
edited 12th Feb '16 5:50:35 PM by CaptainCapsase
If they really are permagone, I will not be happy. There's a lot of stuff you could do with a sapient gynoid, especially in a setting like Remnant, and Roman was easily the most entertaining of all the villains shown so far. Both were more enjoyable than some of the actual main characters, and permanently offing them doesn't sit well with me.
...heh. Anyone remember when I hated Penny? Man, that was, like, Volume 1 stuff there. Go figure.
edited 12th Feb '16 5:53:59 PM by EndlessSea
but HOW?![]()
That's the best thing to do.
No harm in speculating though.
One thing I did notice in the livestream: when Lindsey asked Shannon, Jen and Nora's voice actress what their favourite Volume 3 moments were (in terms of their voice acting scenes), Jen started talking about Pyrrha's heavy moments and started to say something about one of her favourite scenes but paused before she got anywhere, and the others seem to pick up quickly on what she'd been about to say because she suddenly added that may be she can't talk about that yet and everyone agreed.
Since there's only one episode left, the moment she's thinking of must be in that episode because she'd be allowed to talk about Pyrrha's moments in all the other episodes.
edited 12th Feb '16 5:58:25 PM by Wyldchyld
If my post doesn't mention a giant flying sperm whale with oversized teeth and lionfish fins for flippers, it just isn't worth reading.![]()
With Roman though, it becomes increasingly hard to justify bringing him back the longer he's been gone for, and honestly, the only good opening for that would be to have him show up in The Stinger ala Pacific Rim, which isn't likely to happen at this point. Penny being a robot means she (or a copy of her indistinguishable to an outside observer, depending on your point of view) can be rebuilt from scratch if the writers want.
Is the livestream/a recording of it around anywhere? I want to check out the discussion about apparently dead characters myself. Failing that, can you expand on the context in which that was mentioned?
edited 12th Feb '16 6:04:59 PM by CaptainCapsase

compering this stuff with the avengers isn a good idea, because a least the avenger know Loki is only playing with them and wants something, they just figure out what it is too late.
Also for undertale fans a little crossover element here: what soundtracks fit better with the chararters? Because if anything I would like to use Megalovania in the Cinder vs Ozpin.....
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"